🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: African American Memoir Winner! An incredible true story of extraordinary courage and grit! Working undercover, conducting covert operations in the shadows, leading an FBI Homicide Task Force, and investigating drug smugglers, drug kingpins, murderers, and serial rapists would be the last thing you would expect from an introvert. But, as destiny…

🏆 2025 BIBA® True Crime Winner! A serial killer terrorized young, single women throughout Orange County, California, in the late 1970s, committing six sexual assault homicides. Follow the multi-agency team through all the stages in the investigation as they finally tracked down and arrested the perpetrator in 1996, in the process freeing a man wrongly…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Historical Fiction Winner! When bombs fall on Pearl Harbor, the trajectory of Faye Baxter’s Midwestern life takes an unexpected detour. Her fiancé Steve Connor enlists in the Army, and Faye follows him to California for a spur-of-the-moment wedding just days before he ships out. Eager to contribute to the war effort, Faye…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Psychology (End of Life) Winner! Early Exits offers a profound exploration of Canada’s practice of euthanasia, called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), while addressing universal themes of mortality, existential distress, and spiritual transformation. It delves into the psychological, cultural, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of MAiD, challenging conventional narratives around autonomy and end-of-life…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Children’s Middle-Grade Winner! Finding a weird metal cylinder in the junkyard—that’s where it all started for eleven-year-old Harper Graybridge. The young explorer had no idea his discovery would lead to an encounter with a three-foot-tall bug-man named Lyt. When Lyt reveals he is searching for the very same cylinder—known to him as…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Humor/Satire Winner! The Bold, the Brave, and the Wrinkled: Retirement Just Got Rowdy! Barry and Beth, high school sweethearts separated by time and circumstance, find themselves reunited at the Blue Loon Village senior living center in Minneapolis. Now both seventy, they rekindle their relationship only to discover how differently time has shaped…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Coloring Book Illustration Winner! Greetings, curious soul. You have stumbled upon the peculiar realm of Victor M. Nightshade—a shadowy figure of enigmatic talent and imagination. Within these pages lies a portal into the untamed corners of my mind, a labyrinth of oddities, whimsy, and wonder. This is not just a coloring book.…

🏆 2025 BIBA®Non-Fiction: Adventure Memoir Winner! The Naked Sailor is a light-hearted memoir of a naive retiree enticed off to sea…”Don’t worry, it’s mostly Auto Pilot”. Who knew there were pirates in paradise, earthquake tsunamis that rolled over your boat, or a new typhoon every two weeks? Who knew a jellyfish could kill you in…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Novella: Horror Winner! Someone is slaughtering the residents of Felton, a suburb of Anywhere, USA. It’s a flat and largely unremarkable place, and the powers that be strive to keep it that way. However, when the latest body in a string of gruesome murders is discovered by Kyle Bloch, an aspiring journalist,…

🏆 2025 BIBA® LGBTQ2 Fiction Winner! Edward “Eddy” Turner’s entire life is a battlefield. Growing up gay in the violent and poverty-stricken streets of East London, Eddy’s childhood is haunted by the shadow of bullying, rejection, and his domineering football hooligan father. Enrolling in medical school is his only lifeline – but it only catapults…